The Natural Philosophy of Time

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Seite 203Tannery has indicated a modern philological relic of this ancient concept of
temporal atomicity in the Italian word attimo, signifying instant. The theory of
Maimonides that time is composed of time atoms and that the universe would exist only for ...

Seite 327In either case the role of the point source could be interpreted as 'causal', in so far
as its existence is regarded as a necessary condition for the wave to exist, but
this causal interpretation would not enable us to draw any conclusions ...

Seite 350Indeed, there may well be some deep connection between this idea of time and
the existence of an incalculable factor in the universe. On the other hand, the
concept of the block universe in which events do not happen but just are is more
...

Über den Autor (1980)

G. J. Whitrow was the first President of the International Society for the Study of Time and held the same position in numerous other scientific societies. He was a frequent broadcaster on radio and his many books include 'Time in History', 'Atoms and the Universe' (with G.O. Jones and J. Rotblat)and 'Einstein: The Man and His Achievement'. Dr J. T. Fraser is the founder of the International Society for the Study of Time and author of several books including 'Time, Conflict, and Human Values' . He is widely acknowledged as the world's foremost expert on the study of time. Professor MarleneP. Soulsby is Associate Professor in German and Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University.